"German Christianity"

 Point 24 of the original Nazi Party program deals with religious “freedom”:

We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination.

Of course, since the moral law of Christianity is at odds with Nazi “morality,” this was a dead letter ab origine. What was “positive Christianity”? In 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Nazi Minister for Church Affairs, explained that “Positive Christianity” was not “dependent upon the Apostle’s Creed,” nor was it dependent on “faith in Christ as the son of God,” upon which Christianity relied, rather, it was represented by the Nazi Party: “The Führer is the herald of a new revelation,” he said. To accord with Nazi antisemitism, Positive Christianity advocates also sought to deny the Semitic origins of Christ and the Bible. In such elements, Positive Christianity separated itself from Nicene Christianity and is considered apostate by all of the historical Trinitarian Christian churches, whether Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant.

These “positive Christians” formed a “church” called the Deutsche Christen, German Christians, to align German protestantism as a whole towards the principles of Naziism. Their advocacy of these principles led to a schism within 23 of the initially 28 regional church bodies (Landeskirchen) in Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934. Their flag, which was the red Nazi banner, with a cross defaced by the swastika, indicates their insanity.

The Catholic Church, of course, had no such schism, since no believing Catholic could be a Nazi, especially after the issuance of Mit Brennender Sorge, On the Church and the German Reich by His Holiness Pope Pius XI in 1937, denouncing Naziism.